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For the first time in decades, management teams of PE-backed companies are facing high inflation and rising interest rates. In a roundtable hosted by Real Deals and HedgerWay, a panel of private equity GPs and advisers discussed how to recruit and support C-suite management, most notably CFOs, in the face of building headwinds.

It is written into folk-law that 50% of job vacancies never make it to the market. Or is it 40% or even 60%?

Our outlook on work, life and all of the other aspects which make up our world have without a doubt changed in dramatic circumstances since COVID19 enforced a global lockdown. Our longer-term prospects will be heavily influenced by how we as individuals and families pivot and evolve in these new and challenging times. With doctors and scientists at the forefront of decision making and controlling timeframes to begin a post-lockdown life, politicians and the business world face daily questions on how to stem the pain without damaging economies way into the future. In the following article, we discuss the thought process behind a job search versus a career move.

All businesses, large and small, will encounter challenges when designing and deploying robust financial controls frameworks. Many organisations are now realising they have a lot of work to get through with the impending introduction of “UK SOX” and, unsurprisingly, some businesses are far behind where they need to be in preparation for such changes.

2021’s new favourite corporate cliché, but what is this and what does it mean for businesses? On the surface it is all about solidifying new remote and flexible working arrangements, however, business leaders should be aware that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Recruitment activity, for obvious reasons, has long been used as a key economic indicator. So, with the OECD forecasting global GDP to shrink somewhere between 6% and 7.6% this year what does this mean for the job market?